WHAT I HAVE SEEN | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 16, 1880

WHAT I HAVE SEEN.

I have seen a young man sell a good farm, turn mechanic, and die in the insane asylum.

I have seen a farmer travel about so much that there was nothing at home worth looking at.

I have seen a man spend more money in folly than would support his family in comfort and independence.

I have seen a young girl marry a young man of dissolute habits, and repent of it as long as she lived.

I have seen a man depart from truth where candor and veracity would have served him to a much better purpose.

I have seen the extravagance and folly of children bringing their parents to poverty and want, and themselves to disgrace.

I have seen a prudent and industrious wife retrieve the fortunes of a family when the husband pulled at the other end of the rope.

I have seen a young man who despised the good counsels of the wise, and advice of the good, and his career ended in poverty and wretchedness.